Numerical experiments on thermal convection in a chemically stratified viscous fluid heated from below: implications for a model of lunar evolution

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-32

  Alley, K M ^a   Parmentier, E M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LUNAR EVOLUTION; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032577191     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00096-X     Document Type: Article

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